The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1923, Page 13

+ a SEALS HAVE BEST STAFF OF PITCHERS IN MINOR LEAGUES EA and Price sts quit the terials and it off the Prices does id Of steel, the ‘World's risk that Accumulate needs, temporarily thy on, or do resulta in # player—a F with the Willie Kamm Tells How It Feels to Be a Star former San Francisco Third Backer Gives His Im- pressions on His First Game With Chicago White Sox BY WILLIE KAMM Highest Priced Minor Star THOUGHT I had a tough time of it when | played my first Coast league game in San Francisco, but I sure gan into more unexpected things in the majors than | ever believed possible Some of the greatest ball players in the game are wear- ing the White Sox uniform, I am proud to have been ghosen them, and humbly hope I can fulfill the hopes Mr, Gleason has placed in me, But I am only one busher” at that—and it takes at least nine men to win a game. A high figure was paid for gone can’t improve my playing. best and hope for the breaks. Imagine, then, bei suddenly made the target of bat- feries of cameras, being pointed out as “that $100,000 player and watched as tho I was going to do something desperate any minute. This had me nervous ne of as one of my contract, but that act All I can do is play my for awhile—made me. seem all hands and feet. Even my voice sdemed strained. I guess [ was a little over-anxious at the plate. A little piece of paper flew in front of me at third base. Ordinarily, I never would have noticed it. I finally had to pick it up, it both- ed me so. Now I know how a zoo animal feels! Manager Gleason’s cheerful assurances to the players helped a lot. ‘Then Speaker, Collins and other real stars began furnishing thrills and I began to shake the peculiar feeling. I got to comparing the occasion with my first day San Francisco Seals and then got down to my job @ trying to be a cog in the machine Manager Gleason is Rading toward a pennant. But why this “phenom” stuff? A baseball player gly do his best with eight other men to win a game, can re- gardless of whether he costs a million dollars or can { Yale Cage Pilot at all. Star Ball Booking Is Almost Set E managers of the Lincoln Park | Pirates should call this depart- iment without fail today regarding that they have Broadway | Sunday with the | 4 Cuba. BEAN of tt ened in. Holos: other ‘managers have he schedule LEAGUE NO. 1 West & Wheeler va. Fahe mn, at Walla Walla No. 2, 12 noon; ont Cyclones vs. Louie's French Cleaners, at Walla Walla No. 2) 2 p.m; Asahi Cubs va Lincoln} i) Pirates (time mot phoned); Ar- SC ee 5 eaGoe x: : jer Valley. Merchants va, Three | hers Dye Works, at Columbia at | oon; Tailored’ Ready vs. Washb-| Park, at’ Washington park at| my Y.OL He A. vs. Pugets at| Walla No. 2, at 4 p. in.; Best pon, ‘ale: | HE big surprise in Eas ofts of Sunday's pra be T collegiate basketball was the win- # over.the telephone at The Star! ning of the championship by Yale. Sunday. between 6 Sent a | Under Coach Fogarty, Yale, with a a Fora that wasn’t given much con- sideration prior to the start of the |season, came fast and won the East- jern honors after a stiff struggle. | One of the players largely responsi. Pet. {ble for the fine showing of the Blue $85 | was J. P. Haas of Kansas City, Mo., who played a sterling game at guard. +44 | He has been honored by being elected 7 9, | captain of the Yale basketball team for next year J. P. HAAS RESULTS ‘aaa Coast League (400 9 ih FIRST BASE Ucdhe ie oN % pst ae 10 1834 Eaiamy Walsh, former Seattle out-'* theses ant te cuseee r, is starting the season at first | osiiana Aaa “4 cer tase for the Baltimore Orioles in the | lernational league, replacing Jack | Lost. ‘ fan Frapelsco 9, Seattle 0 Salt Lake 4, Onkiand 2. Los Angele Portiand « Hacramento.4, Yernon 6 (12 innings). BASEBALL IN RELAY SQUAD FRANCE NOW| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu- ts | gene, April 26—Oregon will enter « Soldiers jof the American army.| half-mile and a mile relay team in puthletics so popular in France |the University of Washington's an. ut is now the usual thing to|nual relay carnival to be held in Se- ys playing baseball thruout|attle Saturday, April 28. Coach Hay country. Besides this sport,| ward will take seven men to the Mais, rowing and swimming have| meet, with one man running on both Mtwith great favor. teams. The half-mile team is com- : posed of Captain “Ole” Larseon, of Ire 5 Eugene; Delbert Obertouffer, of Port i land; Marvin Lucas and Elmer Har- denburg, of Klamath ‘Falls. Victor Risley, of Milwaukie; Arthur Rose braugh, of Salem, Harley Covalt, of Eugene, and Hardenburg will run on the mile team, These seven men are the fastest middle distance men Hayward has this season and he ex- pects them to give a good account of themselves at the Seattle meet. ¥, now with the New York Glsats, on. that bag. Walsh has ag most of his career in the out- Id. HE mighty mites will furnish the yy } fireworks in the main tangle of BICYCLE Tuesday night. ‘The pugnacious Ride with the other fellowa|| toma in question will be Dandy this apring and summer on one || Dillon, aggressive Minneapolis maul Mf these brand new. C bra ew Columbians and California Joe Lynch, of Oa Ow being shown ab the Sporting Mi ae PP es eae ls Store-—at the lowest prices || '# At years, Your bike for $36.50 Faulpped | The Oakland boy begon a meteor Hic rive about a year ago, and sines {then has been hurtling his way |right thru to the top, He ts the most feared boy in the South cal ing between 119 and 124 pounds, having battered most of his oppo: nents into subzmission. Lynch attracted nation-wide atten: ON MASY |tlon when he smakcked Johnny gl GIRLS! MODELS, roo || Butt, ex-bantamweight champion. of (7 |the world, on the whiakera and |kniocked him down. three. tines in four ith Morrow coasfer take torbike saddle, tool p 1 Ures and yo choice hand barns down, , the Now York fis tic impresario, who. Jookw. . after Floyd Johnson and vther Hastern MIGHTY MITES WILL MIX IN NEXT ARENA RING TANGLE |the Austin & Salt bill at the Arena | rounds of milling, winning the | r Wee Willie on a Day The west tine out KAMA PLAYED “D = 20,572 FANS AND AS MANY CAMERAS ‘BB, BUGS ExPEcteD GREAT “THINGS OF HIM AT BAT Ly OH BOY THAT WICKED Lins TS PIRST, Rusty Callow Has Crew Ambition; rh Ww noviesS x Willie. Kamm Av0 HS MODEST 100,000 ShiILe GWAL~ BEAT iT Bat ABIT OF BLOWING PAPER WAS HIS GREATEST MAJOR LEAGUE coUceRN) KAMM DOSUT THROW HiS GLOVE -He ACES (T CAREFULLY UPRIGHT Would Bring Easterners Out Here: USTY CALLOW, the head crew coach of the University of Washington, has a pet ambition. jeach alternate year, sending; a Purple and Gold shell East only every other season. he trouble in the West at the | prenent time is the lack of competl-| \tion,"t says Callow. ‘There ix only one | race of consequence on the Coast each spring and that ts the Wash-| ington-California event } “It's too bad that Stanford quit crew, as it would make it much bet-| ter for the game if there was more| competition. | “Washingtén almost got Princeton | to send out a shel! in 1915 and with} the prestixe that Washington won at} Poughkeepsie last year I'm sure that we could get a good representative | outfit from the East to make the trip West.” CALLOW 18 |BASEBALL FAN Callow, by the way, baseball “nut” and he kick out of watching the leaguers | |perform. Ho saw his first Coast | |teague game of the season the other When the crew is turning out! |he doesn’t get much chance of seeing | | the Indians vay. | is a regular) gets ® great! CALIFORNIA RACE MADE COACH } The California race, which turned} out to be such a Washington rout,/ “made” Callow asa coach. If he had lost that race cold public sentiment would be panning Washington offi- clals for letting E pader go to Yale. As things now stand Callow has jumped his toughest hurdie—his first big race. FACULTY PERMISSION IS GIVEN VARSITY Faculty permission for the var- sity crew to go to Poughkeepsie is already given, the grant being made at a special mecting of the faculty} athietic committee with President Suzzallo Wednesday. The consent for the Frosh crew to go has. be laid on the table for the present Funds amounting to $8,000 will have to be raised to send the varsity and $12,000 for both crews. Th Fresh crew would race in their event and would be a great help in training the varsity, it is pointed out. STAR LEAGUE ‘TEAM WINS GO The Arden Cubs of The Star league stepped out and won a prac tice game from the Hart & Hart Ford Agency of Georgetown at the latter team's home field by a 9 to 6 tally. Babcock featured with hin work on the mound for the winners, fanning six. The score: R. | Arden Cubs ..... aie | ey Hart @ HAH. ives. 6) Oe 4 Batteries; Babcock, G. Anderson and H. Andérson; Martini, Hart and Smith, | mitt stars, offered ducement to come Lynch's many victics the was Jimmy’ Mendo, o | phia bantam, who inv: Ja while back. Mendo came out} |highly touted, but struck a ‘Tartar |right off the reef im California, |Just a few weeks ago Mendo, |home in Philadelphi |take on the original Joo Lynch, ban tamweight champion of the world, and proceetied to hand the title hold. Jer « terrific eight-round Incing, do! |ing everything but stop him. So, if | showings mean anything, Now York |Joo hasn othing tobe ashamed of | because there iw a boy In California |with the same moniker Dillon hax been working the past three days at the Austin & Salt gym, whipping himaelt in tiptop Jahape. Lyneh will arrive here to | morrow orn etx day, aceompanted by Dolph Thomas, well-known Bay elty promoter, Lynch every in Among past year “sy Philadel. led the Coast back elected ta Leader Pulls for Old Crew BY CARL H, GETZ Former Instructor in Journalism, University of Washington, now a New York magazine writer. HILE the Univeraity of Washington and California wa were getting into position the Oakland estu last, Bat- urday there wag former Wash ingtonian back Kast sitting on the wires Waiting to. get. results ofthe ape Thay man was, ed Leader, former nats for Waah ington, now at Yale, ‘No one pulled harder for Wash. ington to win than Ed Leader, Ho hopes further that hin own crew will have an opportunity to row against Washington in some big regatta tn the East, “And if we do. row against each other, I'll be pulling for my own crew,” said Leader, the other day, “but I'm afraid that Russ Callow’s crew would give us a terrible run for our nioney.” Leader has taken bh in splendid shape at New Haven and already has won the com. plete confidence of both under. graduates and alumni. Game Chatter Filmer Jncoba was due to work today against the Seals, while Jim Seott may get the assignment for the visitors, Pete Kilduff continues ta play hangup | Kilduff, ball for the Seain at second base, Flashkamper and Filtson px play on Ramage’s bh behind second b jumping hii throw. ed w prett Pets Compton hit three yesterday, two singles and a double, Hodge struck out on a wild plich tn the fourth, andw came over when the ball got away from Tobin, The hitting #trength of Orr and Yaryan wero badly missed yesterday, In the Inst few innings Wolverton Ufted Crane from third, shoved Jan- yrin over to third from second, and finished the game wih Clyde Mearkle, the Penn State youngster, at the keystone bag. He didn't have much to do during the time he was in there. Rohwer got Ife twice on dropped filen when Compton and Walsh dropped skiers from his stick. o 4. si YESTERDAY'S, HOME-RUN HITTERS « ice, Sénuti Hingles'inythe ninth by T Breswler and Pinel prod Tho Reds x 3 to, Levictor Sewell's error, two infield outs and a, wild pitel by Uhle in. the ninth séored Shaw with the run that enabled. the Tigers to beat the In- diane, 2 to 1, y's triple, Bigbes'« single, ‘Terney'a triple a ave the. Pirates the ning and a 7 over the Cubs, Ham Rice scored tally With « home hind the fine #0 nock, won the ga Wasnt One ran in an eighth inning rally waa all that (he Athletios could get ul the Red Sox won, Head, to five hit NUNES WINS PORTLAND GO| PORTLAND, Apri 26.-- Dani Nunes, of Sacramento, won u 10 round decision over Salior irankle | Kram of Los Angeles, —here| Wednesday night, the featherweight championship belt rookie p mand t : N oW YORK, Auliffe, the and thug retains| J He hopes to build up a crew in the West until it will be possible for} and the sheritt m Washington to invite an Eastern crew to row against the Huskies on Lake Ww ashington | a winner, as he alw Alabama Wallops Virginia WO Southern gentlemen hooked | | up on the mound of the Rainier valley ball yard yesterday and after | the smoke of battle had rolled away | Shovel Hodge, formerly of Alabama, Presently of Ban Francisco, had |much the better 6f Fred Blake, for- merly of Virginia, and at present hailing from Seattle. | | To relate the sad details pointly, all |that ts necessary to say is San Fran- jclaco, 9 Seattle 0, | Hodge had the Indians well in j band thruout and they amassed but four its off of his delivery thruout the afternoon. On the other hand, Biake was nine runs |_ The Seats opened the scoring tn the | fourth when three runs came over| after two were out and’ Sam Crane should have retired the side on | Flashkamper's grounder, The 8 hopped all over Blake's offerings in tho seventh and five sound smacks totaled four runs They ran over two more in the next stanza on three more. safe blows. The statistics on the matinee fol- oun? Ellison, Kemper, Yelle, Hodge, ' TOUR sewweeadd Beattie AB. ¥ Lane, If. Johnaton, eescsocosos Pp Mearkle, 2 Totals Boore by San Fran) Hite Seattle Hite Run Struck out— balle—Biake 1 Stolen bases—Kiidust, hite—-Elltson 2, Compton, -Yolle, Compton, Bilis new Double play! to Johnston. Time of game pires—Reardon and Finney, ROBERTS WINS FROM SHADE OAKLAND, April 26.—Racehorse Roberts won a clear-cut decision over Billy Shade in four rounds here | Nick Willlams picked Seals in Kansas last summer, is cer- | | onion. | Tuesday and Yaryan turned his ankle | sliding into second. Ya : AMERICAN RACE Champions Coast Batting Averages | Have Real Hurlers One of Strongest Gang of Hurlers League Has Known Is Frisco’s BY, LEO H, LASSEN FRANCISCO has one of the strongest pitching staffs that the minor leagues ever have know thelr roster this year. Seattle's stick era are looking at the this week that they best pitch il bit in series this year In the opening clashes of the series dakins have Bob Geary been held to one run, letting them down tally e shutting the with a single Tuesday and m out ye Henides these k right-handers the Seals Jim Scott, Olly Mitchell, m1 Wheeney, Lefty Harry Courtney and ruit, Jim Buckley, not moulded into as {il be ulligan and when gets back in the outfield. ul pitching staff the Seals cert Kk like the out fit to beat to the wire again, nly RIBE ISN'T HITTING T Indians haven't i! the plate yet clout in the runs treaks. Once when the again and w are on the ac should st hitting in club gets ull the regu e-card ag hey going [BLAKE CAN'T Tt STARTED Fred Blake, having a terrible time getting star ted on the mound for the Redsk he in a good pitcher, too. The on the Seattle club will tell you that he has the stuff.. Just one good game be on his way as ys has been @ winning hurler in Class AA ball. # LASHKAMPER 1S GOODS Ray Flashkamper, the up ster the tainly the goods. He looks much bet- ter at shortstop than bh did thi spring in the practice games when played third base, tiful play yesterday w he went behind second base to pick up Ram- age’s grass burner. ELLISON CAN STILL CRASH "EM Bert Ellison, the hard-socking Seal first-sacker, can still wallop that He picked up two doubles, a single and a walk in five trips yes- terday, one of his doubles hitting the right field fence far down. AGNEW IN RIGHT FIELD It's a kick watching Sam Agnew | patrol right field for the Seals while | Henaryx and Kelly are out. Agnew | made a somersault catch Welnesday that was a pip. He misfudges runs around in circles, but always manages to snare ‘em, That's what cpunts. ORR AND YARYAN STILL OUT Neither Bill Orr nor Yam Yaryan were in uniforms yesterday. Orr strained a tendon {n one of his legs out longer than pe ted, limping badly Wednesday. FINNEY HAS AN APPETITE Umpire Finney can't get to his bis- cults each afternoon soon enough or something. © Tuesday he worked be- hind the plate and called out young Welsh on two terrible strikes. Wednesday he called Mearkle safe at first and then changed his decision and waved him out. PAT LESTER _ WINS BOUT) SAN FRANCISCO, Aoril 26.—Pat Lester, protege of “Spider” Kelly and hailed by Kelly as a coming rival of Jack Dempsey, had no chance to show his stuff here last night. Kid Lee, matched against him, absorbed | four punches in four seconds of the | first round and decided that enougt, AS TIED UP NOW aw April 26. — Cleve- land's second stroke of adversity in Josing to Detroit brought the New York Yanks up into a tie for first place and caused the only important change in the major league standing last night after yesterday's games. BY HENRY L, FARRELL April 26.—Jack Me noted ‘Thespian and retired lightweight champlon, de- serted hig makeup box, up in New England, and came back today to look over the heavyweight who Is| wearing his name, ust wanted to see that bird call. ing himself Jack McAuliffe, and then I'll know what to do,” the original fighting duck said, “If he doesn't \knock over that} Mig comedian, Firpo, Vil go after an | injunction to pry him loose from | that name, If he wants to keep on| boing a MeAuliffe, he'd better be a fighter,” the veteran undefeated | champion added | Aol cant! Wwelght card } to produce wee that the big on May 12 a worthy, nek Dempsey: “Two of them, Johnson and Me-| heavy: | going | challenger for | presented to him by the Portland boxing commission. { Auliffe, hopped the cars to got away | from Tommy Gibbons, Willard was | WHO SAID THERE ISN’T ANYTHING IN A NAME?) He made a beau- | was E PACIFIC COAST B. Lake Uand . Seattle Oakland Angeles Oakland Franc F Maldwin, Rrubake Hood, Los McGeffigan “ Ban Seattle Seattle Vv Kk the Virginia sheriff, att egal Ye ASEBALI. LEAGUE Thru the Ropes “California” Joe Lynch, who fights Dandy Dillon six rounds here Tues- day night at the Arena, is the boy who recently licked Johnny Buff in ® four-round Uff in Oakland, ‘Travie Davia has been knocked out only once in his long career in tho ring, the Kverett welterweight taking the in his home town kham‘s good right hand a lehtle, when he| |. Jimmy Mareus ts olng to hang around | jihese Darts for some sepa, hoping ¢ xet | another match with Day Mia tiene }with 4 |firet bh jad in about. six “month |Hie was laid up with @ broken hand, | thamdly, Dieu, whe sande’ such -o good showing in his other two starts in Seattle, won his last fig round verdict, over Mike De Pii in Butte. Ted Krache and Pete Mitehie are box- Ing six rounds in Tacoma tonight. Dode Bercot t# over the effects of the attack of the fiu he had last week and Will noon @tart training again. using Bob John. trainer, as ref- ® pip-as third man ‘in RED SOX DRAW DOWN BIG COIN The Boston Red Sox drew down | |nearly $40,000 as their share of the| ryan may be | four-game series last week with the as he was | New York Americans in Gotham. It is said to be the largest check any visiting club ever took out of the gate. JACK EXPECTED TO SIGN FOR GO NEW YORK, April 26.—Jack Dempsey and Jack Kearns will be back in New York early noxt week, according to a message received here from Kearns. Dempsey is expected to. sign for a bout this summer soon after his arrival, American League Won. Cleveland .. i 6 |New York - Detroit Philadelphia” Washington St. Louis ton Chicago Detroit 2, ¢ Boston 3, Philadelphia 1 No other game played. ‘The Seattie boxing commission {s mak- | | will ‘Heavies _ Urged to | Work Out |fTWiE 14 heavyweights entered in The Star Washington state tour- nament are urged by Dan Salt and Lonnie Austin to report every night at thelr gymnasium for workouts |condition for the opening night of | the tournament a week from Friday. ‘The plans for the event are to be as follows: The entries will be drawn from a hat, similar to a tennis draw, and the losers of the first round will be elim- inated. ‘The winners will then clash, and the losers will be eliminated. And so en until the champion is named. | The bouts will be four rounds to a decision. In ‘case of draw verdicts nother round will be called for. In case of a draw at the end of five rounds the bout will be decided by | flip of a coin. A referee and two Judges will de- cide the contests, All entries are requested to send in their addresses and weights to Austin & Salt immediately at their sym at Ninth ave. and Olive st. The preliminarics will be held at thelr new gym. A championship belt will be award- ed the winner. Entries are still open‘and close this Saturday night. New names should be sent to Austin & Salt or to the “| sporting editor of The Star, The followipg men have entered to date: Ernie Rogers, Dick Saw- yer, Ned Dunlap, Roy Fulton, Kid Kerber, Milton Delaney, Harry Mur- phy, Roy D. Ritchie, H. Kruger, Swen Rogan, “Patches,” John Bud- wick, Jimmy Dugan and Jack Mc- Donnell. “Rip” King, the big catcher with Portland last year, has been turned back to the Beavers by the Shreve- port club of the Texas league. King undoubtedly be sold to some Class B league team, BASEBALL TODAY—2:45 P.M. San Francisco vs. Seattle Renery a Beek Ser § 310 “ARCADE “BUILD: G PHONE ELLIOT? 2866 thru years ago, and this fellow Fir-! po is a big dough prospect, and nothing else, ‘There Jsn't a real} fighter in that bunch, As long as | Harry Wills and Tommy Gibbons | are around, they don't need any | elimination contests for a couple of | fine championship bouts,” he said. Nothing has been done yet by. the management of the heavyweight | show here, on May 12, but a general | opinion of the fans that a Willard. Johnson fight would not be much to | look at may result in a switoh in} the program: | Johnson was shown | by Fred Fulton, the other night, in| New Jersey, that Willard seéms 9} most sure to beat him, and if John. son ix allowed to go on with the mer champlon, it will deliberate steam-up — for Dempsey-Willard tient Kirpo, the South American gi who Is also being built up for De sey, would make a much card against Wille * up so badly for like a nother look ~o better | A VAN HEUSEN of medium height The VAN HEUSEN is smooth- er,whiter, crisper,more easily handled and more happily worn than any other collar. PHILLIPS JONES CORPORATION Say Francisco Office: 129 BROADWAX, NEW YORK 200 Pacific Bldg. this week and next so as to be in“ ’ Sp PASE